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  • Three months later, when Dad dropped me off in a lonely corner of Vancouver Island, I wasn't so sure.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, ash has fallen as far away as Lake Tahoe and Vancouver, and the entire Mount St. Helens area is closed to traffic within a hundred-mile radius.†   (source)
  • In the hush that ensued he would announce gravely that the Department of Agriculture—he had a letter—credited their fair island with producing America's Finest Strawberry, or that King George and Queen Elizabeth, on a recent visit to the city of Vancouver, had been served San Piedro's Best for breakfast.†   (source)
  • They were items that Carly had collected: photos from their honeymoon, a four-leaf clover they'd found while vacationing in Vancouver, the bouquet of peonies and calla lilies she'd carried on her wedding day, ultrasound images of Josh and Kristen while each was still in her womb, along with the outfits that each had worn on the way home from the hospital.†   (source)
  • Jumped ship in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • On the backstretch at Lansdowne Park in the cool Vancouver summer of 1927, Red Pollard first saw George Monroe Woolf.†   (source)
  • Born June 18, 1936, Vancouver, British Columbia.†   (source)
  • They were about to crack a syndicate out of Vancouver, and they had a couple of informants.†   (source)
  • No. On vacation, actually, fishing up in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • Vast new container ships known as PNXs, too large to transit the Panama Canal, now ply the Pacific between China, Taiwan, and South Korea and Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; and Vancouver, British Columbia.†   (source)
  • Heidi went to Vancouver for her mother's funeral.†   (source)
  • I'll have to place a very embarrassing call to Vancouver… Oh, I did see one name.†   (source)
  • He left her in Vancouver, penniless, and he disappeared.†   (source)
  • In Toronto, Vancouver, California.†   (source)
  • I'm not running down Vancouver.†   (source)
  • They saw little change on shore, except in one place on Vancouver Island near Jordan River where a huge area on the southern slopes of Mount Valentine seemed to have been burned and blasted.†   (source)
  • He stops and circles, eluding the Vancouver defenseman February 15.†   (source)
  • I'm sure Vancouver's the perfect place for him.†   (source)
  • And after Melbourne and Vancouver …." said the man with the mustache.†   (source)
  • "Young lady, I understand that you're currently at the Vancouver airport?†   (source)
  • Up and down the streets of downtown Vancouver, Memorial Cup banners hung from the lampposts.†   (source)
  • But I don't think I can make it to Columbus, Vancouver, and Japan in the next thirty-six hours."†   (source)
  • In Vancouver, I ran the community gardens, too, worked at the crisis center, things like that.†   (source)
  • The men …. they spoke about trouble they were having in Krakow and Melbourne and Vancouver.†   (source)
  • Vancouver's goalie, March 19, lunges helplessly.†   (source)
  • Once Loren called a Jessie Clark in Vancouver, but it was a woman.†   (source)
  • Vancouver defenseman March 12 dives, trying to block the shot.†   (source)
  • When she went to live in Vancouver, they repudiated her in specifically biblical terms.†   (source)
  • Vancouver scored first, early in the second period, on a rebound by Mario Bliznak.†   (source)
  • Finally I got up and went to the phone and called Vancouver information.†   (source)
  • April 27 blocks the shot, but it's rebounded by Vancouver's March 6.†   (source)
  • Vancouver is the suicide capital of the country.†   (source)
  • Hey, you put up with my grandmother in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • He remembered the trip south from Vancouver.†   (source)
  • And all that spring I visited her on set up in Vancouver, then in Chicago, then in Budapest.†   (source)
  • Didn't any of us sneak back to Vancouver?†   (source)
  • Frank's Vancouver Winter Olympics shirt was inside out.†   (source)
  • Whitey brought Woolf to Vancouver, then down to Tijuana, and turned him loose.†   (source)
  • And every day I imagined visiting Heidi in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • You held off an army of Laistrygonians so that our plane could take off in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • I buy us tickets to Vancouver, which has the advantage of being warm, or so I suppose.†   (source)
  • He pointed out buildings along the coastline that reminded him of places in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • On either side of the road are a few houses, smaller than the ones in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • This was a lot later, when I was already living in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • We'll pay for your ticket to Vancouver," the dean said.†   (source)
  • Finally, just as they were getting into Vancouver, the chariot wheels began to smoke.†   (source)
  • In the picture I am clinging to my mother's leg on a street corner in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • He was back in Vancouver, standing in front of the ruins of the Zhang mansion.†   (source)
  • We know some people who have left Vancouver.†   (source)
  • His grandmother's house was a rambling gray stone mansion on twelve acres in North Vancouver.†   (source)
  • Unlike at Stephen's school in Vancouver, all the teachers and children in our school are Japanese.†   (source)
  • The King George/Queen Elizabeth mugs stay muffled in the Vancouver Daily Province.†   (source)
  • Frank had saved them from the Laistrygonians and gotten them out of Vancouver.†   (source)
  • He'd fought plenty of them himself on his journey from Vancouver.†   (source)
  • You stand on a street corner in Vancouver in a straight silky dress and a light black coat.†   (source)
  • To the south, across Vancouver Harbor, the downtown skyline gleamed red in the sunset.†   (source)
  • Is it enough that we were once together briefly in our early Vancouver days?†   (source)
  • It makes me think of our house in Vancouver, though this is not as large.†   (source)
  • If Tyson had gotten his dream message in Vancouver, help might be close.†   (source)
  • Eventually the whole coast was cleared and everyone of the Japanese race in Vancouver was sent away.†   (source)
  • It's still there on West 64th Avenue in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • They're cold (Vancouver has a fuel shortage), they're undernourished, they're unwashed.†   (source)
  • His hair is scraggly and covers his head like the seaweed on Vancouver beaches (draped on the rocks.†   (source)
  • Miss Pye, Stephens music teacher in Vancouver, wrote him that black hairs turn into water snakes.†   (source)
  • The mountainside, hazy as Vancouver fog, is so far away that distance is blurred.†   (source)
  • The house in which we live is in Marpole, a comfortable residential district of Vancouver.†   (source)
  • No one else from Vancouver or New Westminster has been shoved into that place.†   (source)
  • She asked of the holiday in Vancouver and she asked of Gordon and the boys.†   (source)
  • Seattle wasn't so very different from Vancouver and the girls were just as plentiful; I enjoyed it.†   (source)
  • We walked back to the station and caught a shuttle to Vancouver.†   (source)
  • I used to take a roundabout route to the river so I could watch the new owner (we called him Vancouver Singh) at work.†   (source)
  • I watched Vancouver Singh, in his funny foreign yellow raincoat and boots, walk the raised paths my father had once walked.†   (source)
  • Krakow and Vancouver and Melbourne.†   (source)
  • The file also contained her home address-2206 Greenleaf Lane, Vancouver, British Columbia—along with a lot of other information, including her blood type and her school transcripts going all the way back to kindergarten.†   (source)
  • The scooter skidded only once, spilling Arvind-prar into a construction pit where an American-style "super bazaar" was being put up by Potatoes-babu with some money from Vancouver Singh.†   (source)
  • Sometime between winter and the next monsoon season, as the fields around us went from green to yellow to red and the air was fragrant with Vancouver Singh's harvest, my brothers started to bring home friends and clients.†   (source)
  • "Listen to this," said Jess, and he told about confiding to an American woman in a Vancouver saloon that he was evading the draft.†   (source)
  • There were all sorts of draft refusers in Vancouver, and refugees from the army, and lots of their families treated them like heroes, or at least accepted what they did, and sent letters and presents.†   (source)
  • Late in the second period, it was Medicine Hat's turn, as the team's scoring leader, Darren Helm, fired a quick shot past Vancouver's goalie, Tyson Sexsmith.†   (source)
  • Vancouver answered in the third period, scoring the game's deciding goal, and then, when Medicine Hat pulled its goalie in desperation, Vancouver scored a third time.†   (source)
  • Barnsley was at a Lethbridge Broncos hockey game in southern Alberta, a team that played in the same Major Junior A league as the Vancouver Giants and the Medicine Hat Tigers.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in running shoes, dark cargo pants, and a Vancouver Winter Olympics T-shirt with his Roman centurion badge pinned to the neck (which seemed either sad or hopeful to Percy, now that they were renegades).†   (source)
  • Our maple leaf will probably have it sent by train from Ottawa to Vancouver and then on a slow freighter to Hong Kong where it'll get lost in the mailroom.†   (source)
  • "I always knew fire could kill me, but since my grandmother's mansion burned down in Vancouver …. it seems a lot more real."†   (source)
  • On the backstretch of Vancouver Race Course in the summer of 1927, a friendship was forged in the crucible of the racetrack and adolescence.†   (source)
  • I walk along the breakwater in the soothing Vancouver drizzle, the halftones of the seashore, the stroking of the small waves.†   (source)
  • His father, eager to see him and furious with the man who had abandoned him, scraped together a few dollars and traveled all the way to Vancouver to stand in the crowd and watch his son ride.†   (source)
  • In the summer he usually raced at the cluster of tracks around Vancouver or at another western Canadian track called Glacier Park; in the fall and spring it was California's Tanforan; in the winter, Tijuana.†   (source)
  • I wish I were back in Vancouver, in front of the fireplace with Ben, looking out over the harbor, while the giant slugs munch away at the greenery in the back garden.†   (source)
  • It's cheaper in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • "Vancouver," I say.†   (source)
  • When Vancouver disappeared in the clouds below, Frank buried his head in his hands and started to cry.†   (source)
  • Back in Vancouver, Mars told me I'd have to put my duty ahead of my life or the entire war would go sideways.†   (source)
  • They crossed the Ironworkers bridge into North Vancouver, and the chariot started to rattle dangerously.†   (source)
  • To the north, the hills and rainforests of Lynn Canyon Park snaked between the subdivisions of North Vancouver until they gave way to the wilderness.†   (source)
  • Compared to Vancouver, downtown Anchorage was tiny—more like a college campus than a city, but Hazel looked amazed.†   (source)
  • Ever since they'd left Vancouver, she'd been calling to him in her thoughts, hoping he would hear her and come find her, but that was just wishful thinking.†   (source)
  • Whenever Grandmother started lecturing him about his ancestors—how they'd come over from China and prospered in the import/export business, eventually becoming one of the wealthiest Chinese families in Vancouver—well, it was boring.†   (source)
  • Distanced as I felt in time to the people of Slocan, I could not feel as remote as the report in the Vancouver Daily Province sounded.†   (source)
  • But now the North Vancouver Board of Trade has gone on record to demand that all our autos be confiscated.†   (source)
  • Going there would eat up our savings since that's all we'd have to live on but at least it's close to Vancouver and just a few hours to get back.†   (source)
  • Phone Langara 0938-R. I looked it up once in the November 1941 inch-thick Vancouver telephone directory.†   (source)
  • I look up and recognize Nakayama-sensei, the round-faced minister with round eyes and round glasses from the Anglican church in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • The heat is as intense and roaring as the sawdust furnace in the basement in Vancouver when its door is open.†   (source)
  • They are going to move the Vancouver women now and shove them into the Pool before sending them to the camps in the ghost towns.†   (source)
  • And the place they called the Pool was not a pool of water, but a prison at the exhibition grounds called Hastings Park in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • Six hundred and seventy solemn-faced Japanese …. sailed out of Vancouver Friday night bound for the "land of the rising sun."†   (source)
  • Vancouver—the water, the weather, the beauty, this paradise—is filled up and overflowing with hatred now.†   (source)
  • I can imagine that my grandmother said much the same thing those dark days in 1942, as she rocked in her stall al. the Vancouver Hastings Park prison.†   (source)
  • Does Old Man Gower still walk through the hedges between our houses in Vancouver, in Slocan, in Granton and Cecil?†   (source)
  • The Commission thinks the nationals are cleared out of Vancouver, but oh boy, there are a lot of them who have greased enough palms and are let alone.†   (source)
  • Obasan is wrapping the pretty blue-and-white shoyu bottle shaped like a tiny teapot in a piece of the Vancouver Daily Province.†   (source)
  • Inside the house in Vancouver there is confidence and laughter, music and mealtimes, games and storytelling.†   (source)
  • There's also the regular appearance of the Vancouver Daily Province with war stories that Stephen reads.†   (source)
  • The Vancouver Daily Province reported, "Everything is being done to give the Japanese an opportunity to return to their homeland."†   (source)
  • Led by Angus Maclnnis of Vancouver, CCF members made a vain but valiant effort to have the last restriction on the freedom of Japanese Canadians removed at once.†   (source)
  • Somehow, when lying down, she seemed to be an enormous person with a large blanket-and-bed body, like one of my ornamental dolls in Vancouver—a bodiless head glued onto a cotton-filled quilt.†   (source)
  • Men, women, and children outside Vancouver, from the "protected area"—a hundred-mile strip along the coast— were herded into the grounds and kept there like animals until they were shipped off to roadwork camps and concentration camps in the interior of the province.†   (source)
  • A few days ago the newspaper reported Ian Mackenzie as saying, "The intention of the government is that every single Japanese—man, woman, and child— shall be removed from Vancouver as speedily as possible."†   (source)
  • The two letters that reached us in Vancouver before all communication ceased due to the war told us that Mother and Grandma Kato had arrived safely in Japan and were staying with Grandma Kato's sister and her husband in their home near the Tokyo Gas Company.†   (source)
  • Flushed out of Vancouver.†   (source)
  • Into this I fall and fall and fall, swaying safe as a feather through all my waiting hours and silent night watchings, past the everyday walk through the woods and the noisy school grounds, down past the Slocan City stores and the sawmill whine and Rough Lock Bill's cabin, back along the train journey and the mountain ridges and the train station in Vancouver with all the people and the luggage and missionaries and women trotting here and there, carrying babies and boxes.†   (source)
  • You from Vancouver?†   (source)
  • Remember Vancouver?†   (source)
  • In the late summer Mark and Jim took the boat for its annual overhauling on the long journey to Vancouver.†   (source)
  • When they reached the boat at the float, they had to wait only moments before the tiny seaplane came, as ordered, to carry the Bishop to Vancouver Island.†   (source)
  • I didn't mind and it was all right; shuttles ran every twenty minutes and our passes were not restricted to Vancouver.†   (source)
  • Shuttles ran to Vancouver every Sunday morning, right after divine services (which were moved up to thirty minutes after breakfast) and came back again just before supper and again just before taps.†   (source)
  • The churches in Vancouver sent toys which the women sorted into packs, not only for the village children, but for those at the logging camps, the isolated float houses on Mark's patrol.†   (source)
  • If you are able to get past these traps, through having already been bled of all valuta, there are still other places in the city almost as satisfactory (I mean there are girls there, too) which are provided free by a grateful populace — much like the social center in Vancouver, these are, but even more welcome.†   (source)
  • The trip down was full of laughter and anticipation, and when at last they entered the lovely harbour of Vancouver, there stretched before them was the first large city.†   (source)
  • He spoke reasonably of psychoanalysis, Long Island polo, and the Ming platter he had found in Vancouver.†   (source)
  • Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of Captain Cook and the other,—Vancouver's and all your affairs.†   (source)
  • She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.†   (source)
  • Often, adventures which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted unworthy of being set down in the ship's common log.†   (source)
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